Improvement in corn-harvesters



Patented Sept. 28,- 1869.A

E. J. ENO. vCorn Harvester.

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EDWARD Ender SPRINGFIELD, ILLINoIs.

Letters Patent No. 95,214, dated September 28, 1869.`

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IMPROVEMENT IN en512M-Heavy:s'rrnszs.l

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may come/rn.-

` Be it known that I, EDWARD I. ENO, of Springfield, in the county of Sanga mon, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oorn-Harvesters; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact -.description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is apla'n view ot' my improved device;

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the saine;

Figure 3 is. a vertical cross-section on the Vlines' x x and y y of figs. land 2, respectively; and' Figure 4 is a detached view of the picking-devices.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

My invention vhas for its object the plucking or dcand It consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the several parts thereof', by means of which they co-operate witheach other, and enable the whole device to perform the desired-otcein a superior manner, asis hereinafter fully set forth.

A represents the axle, having journalled upon its ends the ground-wheels 4B B, the whole forming the support for the machine.

Secured to and extending backward from the axle is a receiving box, O, having its bottom, c, sloped downward from said axle, so as to cause its contents to fall to the rear, from .whence it may be withdrawn by means of a trap, D, formed by hinging the lower half of the rear side of said receiver, c, at its upper edg, so as to permit its vbottom edge to swing ont-l war i The ends of said receiving box extend forward'of b'ar of ironE, which is attached at its rear end to the tally to the front of said end-piece D, from whenceit its fron-t end being lreduced in width from the commencement -of said curve, so as to terminate in a point.

A similar bar or finger-guard, E', is secured to and projects forward from the axle A, at a short distance from and parallel with said guard, its ends being curved outward and forward in an opposite direction, while a third guard, l", also secured to the axle, extends forward midway between the others, its outer end being curved downward and outward, and the whole soarranged as to embrace and draw together all the stalks of a hill, onel set of guards being placed at a suitable distance from the other, so as to enable the machine to operate upon two rows of corn at the same time.

Fand F represent the fingers or pickers, resting ya pinion, I, seeured upon one end thereo'and meshing with the teeth of a female gear, K, attached to and revolving with one of the ground-wheels.

vAn eccentric, h, is secured upon the shaft H, iinmediately beneath the rear end of each finger F, and connected therewith by means of a strap, 11.', passing varound. said eccentric, and hinged to said finger, so.

that when the shaft is caused to revolve, the outer end of each finger will be' alternately elevated and dcpressed.

The .eecentrics are so adjusted as to cause a corresponding movement of the outer lingers, and ian opposite movement of the centre one, so that as the contiguous edges of said guards are sharpened, the effect produced by their operation is similar to that of a double pair of shears.

Immediately in rear of the fingers is a roller, L, journalled `within suitable bearings, and connected by an endless band, M, with a similar roller, N, journalled within the front edge of the receiver.

Motion is imparted to said rollers and band by means of a grooved pulley, 0, attached to the shaft H, and connected by a cord or belt with a correspond-- ing pulley, a, secured upon the end ofthe shaft ofthe roller N.

P represents a shaft, suitably journalled in hearings t beneath the finger-guards, and operated by means of a pulley, p, secured to its outer end, and connected with the shaft ll, by means of a cord or beit passing around both pulley and shaft Secured longitudinally and radially upon the shaft P, are four steel plates, lt, the-outer edges of which are provided with saw-teeth of the usual forni.

As thus described, the device is complete, and its.

operation is as follows:

The machine is driven forward with the wheels in the hollows, and each set of finger-guards in a line with a row of corn, the stalks of which are gathered together and drawn between the fingers, which, by their' peculiar motion, separate the ears from said stalks, and pass them over upon the endlessbclts, from whence they are conveyed into the receivingbox.

The stalks of corn, after'the removal of the ears, are brought in contant with the saw-teeth plates upon the shaft P, which, passing downward and backward,

draw said stalks out from between said fingers, and

The fingers or pickers F, resting upon the fulerum` pivot und operated by means of the eceentries h, conneotedto said fingers bythe strop h', substantially as herein shown and for the purpose specified.

` Also, the finger-guards or gatherels E and E, in combination with the fingers or piekers F, said piekersV being constructed and operated substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Also, the shaft P, provided with the radial szw:- pla/tes R, and operated by means of the shaft H, in combination with the above-described gathering and picking-devices, substantially as and for the purpose shown.

Also, in combination with said gathering :rnd pieking-devices, the endless belt M, operated by means of the rollers L and N, shaft H, and pulleys n and 0, substantially as shown and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand, this 12th day of May, 1869.

\ n EDW. I. ENO.

Witnesses GEO. O. MARGY, W. W. HAYS. 

